Lorcán Black

Lorcán Black is an Irish writer, living in London. He has previously worked as a journalist, both in radio & in print. His poetry has been published in The Rush, Grim & Gilded, New Writing Scotland, Stirring, Poet Lore, Snapdragon, Connecticut River Review, Northern New England Review, The Los Angeles Review, The Saint Ann's Review, The Stinging Fly, Chiron Review & Assaracus amongst numerous others.

He is a Pushcart Prize & a Best of the Net nominee & has been longlisted for the Two Sylvias Prize. Some of his work has been archived in the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University & in the Saginaw Valley State Univeristy Library, as well as the British Library, the National Library of Ireland and the Library of Congress.

His first collection, Rituals, was published by April Gloaming Publishing in 2019. His second collection, Strange Husbandry, is forthcoming from Seren Books in 2024.